About Us

Hanson Bridgett has been a San Francisco and California mainstay since 1958. We have represented institutions like the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District for over three decades. With over 150 attorneys today, we have grown steadily through the years. And while our offices are based in Northern California, our clients span national and international borders.

To serve our clients' evolving needs, we are proud to be a member of the Globalaw international legal network. Our relationship with Globalaw gives us access to lawyers at firms in 165 major jurisdictions around the world and provides critical international resources for our clients.

We care deeply about our clients, their business, providing exceptional service, delivering the highest-quality work, and achieving the best results—as measured by our clients' business goals. We know that we cannot convince you of this in a website; and we know that you can read similar statements on most every other law firm's website. We hope we will have the opportunity to work together with you so that you can draw your own conclusions.

In the meantime, we thought we would share some things about our firm that you might find interesting and that we think make us special:

• For a firm of our size, we have a particularly diverse mix of clients. In addition to large national and global companies, we represent many regional businesses, individuals, and governmental entities.
• Our San Francisco and Marin offices are certified Green Businesses and our Sacramento office is a certified Sacramento Sustainable Business.
• We are celebrating over 50 years of providing legal counsel to purpose-driven companies.
• We have been recognized for our commitments to community service, pro bono work, and diversity.
• We are one of only two law firms to win an Ebbie Award for Corporate Philanthropy.
• We've been named one of the 50 Best Places to Work in the Greater Bay Area every year since 2004.
• We attract and develop our attorneys with responsibility, nurturing, and opportunities for leadership—rather than focusing too much on money or keeping up with the Joneses.
• We recently lowered our attorneys' billable-hour requirement. Law students said they "couldn't be happier to hear the news (near bottom of linked page)."
• We are the only law firm that is a Founding B-Corporation.
• We are the only law firm we know of that features a Rock Band, a Jazz Trio and a Grammy award winning violinist.